2013 Movies Year in Review
I only saw around 23 movies that came out in 2013. From those, I was asked to compile a top ten list for Downright Creepy, where I occasionally pen reviews. I managed to put one together, along with a pick for worst movie I saw this year, and a list of some of the movies that I'm most looking forward to next year.
You can find the lists here, but I thought that in lieu of just reproducing the lists here on my site to round out the year, I'd instead talk a bit about it. With only 23 movies to choose from, it wasn't easy to make a top ten, and the genre rubric of Downright Creepy excluded a couple of titles that would otherwise have made the cut (The Croods, The Heat). It also meant I had to make a second choice for worst movie of the year. My real choice for worst movie of the year was the insufferable A Good Day to Die Hard, though looking at some of the other lists, it seems like ABCs of Death, which I had thought came out in 2012, was a contender, in which case maybe it would have had a shot at top honors in the worst category.
I'm also bad at ranking much of anything, so while the top two slots are the definite winners by a substantial margin, the others could be put in just about any order you like and you'd probably still have a pretty accurate representation. As for the movies I'm looking forward to in 2014, those were done pretty well off the top of my head, and the only change I know of is that Fast and Furious 7, or whatever they're calling it these days, would have made the list had it not been, again, for the genre restrictions I was working in.
There are a lot of movies that I wanted to see in 2013 that I haven't gotten around to yet, so if you come back to me in six months, this list will probably look a lot different. Of all the movies I wanted to catch but didn't get the chance to, tops on my list would be Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are, which I am eagerly awaiting!
This is pretty much it for the year-in-review posts for me, except for the (highly anticipated, I'm sure) second annual Year in Creatures post, which I'm planning to drop sometime in the next week or so.
You can find the lists here, but I thought that in lieu of just reproducing the lists here on my site to round out the year, I'd instead talk a bit about it. With only 23 movies to choose from, it wasn't easy to make a top ten, and the genre rubric of Downright Creepy excluded a couple of titles that would otherwise have made the cut (The Croods, The Heat). It also meant I had to make a second choice for worst movie of the year. My real choice for worst movie of the year was the insufferable A Good Day to Die Hard, though looking at some of the other lists, it seems like ABCs of Death, which I had thought came out in 2012, was a contender, in which case maybe it would have had a shot at top honors in the worst category.
I'm also bad at ranking much of anything, so while the top two slots are the definite winners by a substantial margin, the others could be put in just about any order you like and you'd probably still have a pretty accurate representation. As for the movies I'm looking forward to in 2014, those were done pretty well off the top of my head, and the only change I know of is that Fast and Furious 7, or whatever they're calling it these days, would have made the list had it not been, again, for the genre restrictions I was working in.
There are a lot of movies that I wanted to see in 2013 that I haven't gotten around to yet, so if you come back to me in six months, this list will probably look a lot different. Of all the movies I wanted to catch but didn't get the chance to, tops on my list would be Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are, which I am eagerly awaiting!
This is pretty much it for the year-in-review posts for me, except for the (highly anticipated, I'm sure) second annual Year in Creatures post, which I'm planning to drop sometime in the next week or so.